Too many times, the idea floats that commerce in the past wasn’t as interesting as it is today. Archaeologists beg to differ. There’s nothing like stumbling upon an ancient business and seeing the tools a surgeon held, how wine was made, or even ancient customers who took shelter. Even better, newly discovered workshops reveal mysterious […]
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The new director general of the World Health Organization, to be selected in May, will take over at a pivotal time.

Despite phone calls and in-person pleas from constituents, legislators fell three votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto.

We eat, and then our body breaks down what we ate, absorbs wanted nutrients, and gets rid of the unwanted residue as sweat, urine, and feces. It’s no big deal, and it’s part of what makes us . . . us. Feces is known by several names around the world, and most of us don’t even care about what […]
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On Monday’s show, Tucker Carlson interviewed former Obama campaign foreign policy adviser and State Dept. official David Tafuri. The debate included the alleged Russian hacks and the ongoing investigation of the Trump campaign.
On @FoxNews with @TuckerCarlson tonight to try to explain the latest developments in the Russia investigation at 9:00 PM
— David Tafuri (@DavidTafuri) April 3, 2017

#Tucker to @DavidTafuri: What is the actual evidence that Russia hacked the election? Why can't anyone share the underlying proof? @FoxNews
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 4, 2017

#Tucker to @DavidTafuri: I want 1 person to bring 1 piece of evidence that Russia hacked the election…

Politicians on both sides are calling a proposal to cut funding to the National Institutes of Health by 18 percent seriously misguided.

At a Democratic event in New Jersey on Friday, new DNC chair Tom Perez said this about Republicans:
DNC Chair Tom Perez: "Republicans don't give a shit about people" https://t.co/guSPOqU0O7 pic.twitter.com/Tdkm71084K
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 2, 2017

That sounds like Perez’s own “basket of deplorables” moment, and he has no regrets:
Tom Perez won't apologize for saying Republicans "don't give a shit about people" https://t…

The proposal would effectively eliminate one of the Affordable Care Act’s most popular provisions.

We’d thought that PTSD was finally being given the respect it deserved; and then a reporter for the New York Daily News claimed that test-firing an AR-15 at a gun range gave him temporary PTSD, so loud were the explosions.
It turns out many more of us — millions, perhaps — have undiagnosed and untreated PTSD and don’t even know it, according to a new report put together by the nonprofit ecoAmerica, Climate for Health, and the American Psychological Association…

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield blamed the uncertain future of the federal health care law and the ensuing market instability for its decision.